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• You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heaven, Being Lied, Goodness

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• You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Crush, Peace, War

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• Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as our misery comes from our belief, and not from the thing believed, it is necessary to be on the watch, so as not to be deceived by false guides. Sensation contains no intelligence or belief, but is a mere disturbance of the matter, called agitation, which produces mind, and is ready to receive the seed of error. Ever since man was created, there has been an element called error which has been busy inventing answers for every sensation.

  Phineas Quimby

  Health, Men, Errors

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• What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Destiny, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.353, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  Plato

  Men, Errors, Views

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Men, Names

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Deceiving, Difficulty

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

  Peter Weiss

  Wages, Useless, Poverty

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.81, A&C Black

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• So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.

  John Ruskin

  Regret, Long, Support

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.34

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• Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Stakes, Magician

  "Without a Trace". Book review of ‘The Sixth Extinction’ by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2014.

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• When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

  Dean Koontz

  Liars, Lying, Deception

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.252, Bantam

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• There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Judging, Ill

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• The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

  Said Nursi

  Truth, Deception, Deceptive

  Said Nursi (2005). “The Words: The Reconstruction of Islamic Belief and Thought”, p.250, Tughra Books

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• Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Distrust

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• A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Deception, Deceiving

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• Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

  Henry Adams

  Hands, Path, Illusion

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.409, Booklassic

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• Before I went to Escuela Caribe, my parents showed me the school's brochures featuring smiling kids at the beach or on horseback. The propaganda was greatly appealing to a kid from rural Indiana who hated her high school anyway. I also got reassurances that I could return if I didn't like it. But shortly after the gates closed behind me, I learned I'd been deceived; the beach was far away and I couldn't return home until I'd completed the program.

  Julia Scheeres

  Beach, School, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.

  Philip Sidney

  Fall, Deceit, Firsts

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.168

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• Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Thinking

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• The world wishes to be deceived.

  Sebastian Franck

  Wish, World

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• It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

  James Agee

  Eye, Past, Years

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

  Francis Bacon

  Trust, Betrayal, Adversity

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.476

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• I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Hate, Land

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Self, Political

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.213, e-artnow

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• What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Love, Life, Friendship

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